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We like to ensure that the host has strong knowledge of their subject (so that they can answer those hard-hitting questions accurately), so we piggy-backed off of /r/askhistorians flaired user list. Those are the users that have been hosting the IAmAs so far, either on their own account or an alternate.

We have a decently long list of users who've volunteered to host so far, and I'm sure there are even more on the /r/askhistorians flaired user list who would be open to it, and just missed our initial outreach months ago.

I'd say that we're also open to having non-/r/askhistorians flaired users host, we'd just have to determine how to verify that they possess a certain level of expertise. If someone who is not a flaired user on /r/askhistorians wants to host, they can certainly modmail us and we'll evaluate on a case-by-case basis, and then set up a date/time.